Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
ALAN GREENSPANThe Iraq War is largely about oil.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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